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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2003
Charles W. Extrand, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Michael Wright, Greenwood, MN (US);
Charles W. Extrand, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Michael Wright, Greenwood, MN (US);
Entegris, Inc., Chaska, MN (US);
Abstract
A microfluidic device having durable ultraphobic fluid contact surfaces in the fluid flow channels of the device. The ultraphobic surface generally includes a substrate portion with a multiplicity of projecting regularly shaped microscale or nanoscale asperities disposed in a regular array so that the surface has a predetermined contact line density equal to or greater than a critical contact line density, and so that the ratio of the cross-sectional dimension of the asperities to the spacing dimension of the asperities is less than or equal to 0.1.